The Northern Finance Association provides an annual forum at which finance academics, professionals, and students from throughout North America and the world gather to hear and present the latest research in all areas of finance.  These areas include: asset pricing, arbitrage, behavioral finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, derivatives, emerging markets, insurance, financial development, financial institutions, finance theory, financial regulation, international finance, risk management, market efficiency, market microstructure, mathematic finance, real estate finance, and other papers of general interest.